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From: roberto@keltia.Freenix.FR (Ollivier Robert)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: GNU version of su?
Date: 4 Oct 1995 16:29:10 GMT
Organization: Herve Schauer Consultants
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In article <44i4jo$2gu@jraynard.demon.co.uk>,
James Raynard <james@jraynard.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> To start INN, the rc.news script that comes with it should be run by root
> (this is in the INN documentation, BTW).

In inn1.4unoff2,  the method has changed  and inndstart must be setuid root
so either you do

echo /usr/local/news/etc/rc.news | su news

or get the -CURRENT su (or the patch) which re-enable

su -c /usr/local/news/etc/rc.news

[ Cc: to James ]
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